Growing up in Tuckerton, Barry Steinmetz looked forward to those summer days when he and his family would take their 14-foot Puffin sailboat and ride across the bay to Beach Haven. And when in Beach Haven, he made sure to stop by the legendary Lucy Evelyn, the schooner-turned-gift shop in what became Schooner’s Wharf.

“My father rented a boat slip in Tuckerton for $50 a year,” he recalled. “It sure was a much faster way to get to the Island and back than fight all the traffic on the roads.”